CMU Distinguished Lecture Series - Dr. Douglas Lenat

50 Shades of Symbolic Representation and Reasoning. Dr. Douglas Lenat recently presented a talk to CMU-SV faculty and students on “50 Shades of Symbolic Representation and Reasoning.“ He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, investigating automated discovery based on “interestingness“ heuristics, for which he received the 1977 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award. He was one of the co-founders of AAAI, and in the inaugural set of AAAI Fellows. Besides professoring at CMU and Stanford, he was Principal Scientist at MCC, where he founded the Cyc Project in 1984 – something he dubbed “ontological engineering“. At the end of 1994, he founded Cycorp, where he continues to serve as CEO. Dr. Lenat is a Fellow of the AAAS, has authored a hundred refereed papers and several books and book chapters, ranging from machine learning to knowledge based systems, representation, and inference, and is an editor of the J. Automated Reasoning, J. Learning Sciences, and J. Applied Ontology. He is a founder and Advisory Board member of TTI Vanguard, and is the only individual to have served on the Scientific Advisory Board of both Microsoft and Apple.